PLEASANTVILLE'S EARLY DAYS 1888-1988 by Arlan, Roger W. and Alice M. Foster - 1988

Philadelphia: P. H. Nicklin & T. Johnson, Law Booksellers. Very Good. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition in later clean brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Hinges & text tight and intact. (xvi, pp13-415). Foxing mainly first & last few pages. Small ding in front cover near hinge. From the BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ECONOMISTS: "His thinking is largely orthodox and classical; he is a proponent of laissez-faire and opposes government intervention in the economy. He criticizes current economic thinking for its limitations, but believes Adam Smith and his successors are broadly following the right lines. In Principles of Political Economy, Vethake shows awareness of the need to broaden the classical concept of value, and shows it can be applied to technology and to knowledge". Usiana, Business, Economics, Finance, Banking. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages .

Boonton, New Jersey: Municipal Codes, Inc., 1956. Very Good condition. See photos. Square and tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Hinges are perfect. Pages are creamy white, clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. First Edition. Published by Order of the Mayor and Board of Alderman. Includes an appendix that lists all ordinances passed since the Town of Boonton was granted its charter in 1867. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in gold on the spine. Complete with errata slip laid-in.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket, probably as issued. 8vo. xii, 290pp.

America. Very Good. First Edition. Paperback. 9 stapled wraps. Issues 3 - 11, years 2006 - 2015. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A., 1950. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Ninth Printing. 1st hardbound edition, bound red cloth boards with white Pennsylvania Dutch design in white. 463 pp. including index. Loose-leaf pages in 5 ring metal binder with heavy stock and metal text protectors front and back. Card stock yellow tabbed dividers (20) are crisp and unbent. Text is clean and in like new condition. Recipe note added in pen on page 189. No previous owner attribution. Brown end pastedowns with white decoration. Illustrations on almost every page, mainly line drawings, B&W photographs and several full color photographs. This is General Mills first hardcover cookbook, published in 1950, which quickly became a national best seller and is now a family heirloom for many. This book contains illustrations and unique tips to "dress up food for eye appeal" fitting for dinner parties of the 1950s. A First Edition in this condition is rare. Note: pictures… Read More

New York: Harper's Weekly, 1865. 16 pages. Large folio (16 inches by 11 1/4 inches). Original complete issue of Harper's Weekly. Harper's Weekly was the most important American pictorial newspaper in the 19th century. Because the original wood engravings in virtually every issue are highly collectible, complete issues are becoming more difficult to obtain. The issue offered here focuses on the events following the assassination of Lincoln. On the front page are articles on the assassination and the funeral along with three original wood engravings: one showing the ruins of the Garrett barn where John Wilkes Booth was shot; another showing the house where Booth died; and a third engraving of the house of Booth's co-conspirator David Herold. On the interior are multiple engravings of various Lincoln funeral sites. Among the unrelated engravings is the double-page centerfold by Thomas Nast, entitled "Palm Sunday"--one side portraying the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem… Read More

Appleton-Century, 1941, 1st . Hardcover . VG-/VG-. Spine cocked; trace of shelfwear; bottom corner bumped. DJ w/ some rubbing/edgewear/chips; 1/2in chip top rear; couple faint stains on spine; in new Brodart protector. Illustrated with B&W drawings by Edward Caswell.

Philadelphia: Barker Moore & Mein Medicine Co.. Very Good+. ca. 1910. Softcover. No date: Ca: 1910. Clean soft pictorial covers with cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. . Pages lightly age toned. B/W drawing illustrations. Humor based on ethnic, racial or sexual stereotypes. Comic book filled with cartoons, stories & jokes - all have one of Barker's products as the punch line. Humor; B&W Drawing; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

J. B. Lyon, 1907. G-/None. Wear/rubbing on boards/edges; boards a bit warped/splayed; front hinge cracked; some mildew spots in the center of some of the pages; some water damage pageblock. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1907. Fully illustrated with color plates. 000009669-X003

Port Sunlight Near Birkenhead- UK: Lever Brothers Ltd., 1870. FUNNY STORIES- Mark Twain and LETTERS TO PUNCH- Artemus Ward- Lever Brosthers, Ltd.- Port Sunlight Near Birkenhead- UK- sn,nd (1870?)- 1st Edition- Hardcover:-12mo- Original publishers maroon cloth with gilt titles on cover and spine- covers have bevelled edges- VG+- no dj as issued-light rubbing but clean and tight- Funny Stories 173pp, & Letters to Punch 195pp + 1-4pp ads for banks, elixirs, pills, transparent cement etc + 18pp of Ward Lock book ads- illustrated with pre-chapter and end of chapter illustrations/decorations- SEE PHOTOS- Contents: Eye-Openers: Funny Stories by Mark Twain- from 'Autobiography to Medieval Romance...Science vs Luck--a bevy of Mark Twain stories- + Artemus Ward- "Letter to Punch"-'Arrival in London' -to Essays and Sketches- writings in the Cleveland Plain Dealer etc- A great book and 1st Edition- World Cat states: Funny stories-Author: Mark Twain; Artemus Ward-Publisher: Port… Read More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. limited to 500, in two volumes 1851 [Number 5, Rare America Series] and 1852 [Number 6, Rare American Series], 8vo, [9x6in]; Vol. I - [2], xviii, [1], 142, [6], [2], Vol. II - [2], xviii, [1], 143, [6], [3], 24 black/white and blue toned illustrations and map, Introduction and Retrospective by Carl Wheat; Dark blue cloth backstrip with gray-blue paper boards, dark blue lettering and line designs on front, spine paper label with black lettering for both volumes, top edge trimmed and others untrimmed; Light tan dust jackets with black lettering narrative about the Rare America Series on front; Vol. I & II boards age toned along edges, darken age toning to front and rear end papers of both volumes, bookplate of Frank Howard Abbott, Jr. on front end paper in both volumes with some offset, tipped in illustration of miners in a saloon on pale blue paper with Grabhorn address; Dust jackets age toned and fragile with chips and… Read More